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Ghana — Unemployment
Unemployment Rate for Ghana, 1991–2025.
Latest value · 2025
2.98%
Unemployment Rate · % of total labor force · -14.6% since 1991
Unemployment for Ghana was 2.98% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 35 years, from 1991 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 10.46% in 2000. The lowest was 2.17% in 2013 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.46% per year.
Ghana ranks 148 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 79%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 5.45%, so Ghana sits below it. It peaked in 2000 and has fallen 72% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 56%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
2.98%
First (1991)
3.49%
Change
-14.6%
Highest
10.46%
in 2000
Lowest
2.17%
in 2013
Average
5.35%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.46%
Years of data
35
Recent years
| Year | % of total labor force |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.98% |
| 2024 | 2.82% |
| 2023 | 2.83% |
| 2022 | 2.87% |
| 2021 | 3.2% |
| 2020 | 3.18% |
| 2019 | 3.07% |
| 2018 | 3.2% |
| 2017 | 3.37% |
| 2016 | 5.26% |
| 2015 | 6.81% |
| 2014 | 4.4% |
Reading this correctly. Share of the labor force without work but available for and seeking employment. National definitions differ, so cross-country comparison needs care. Figures are in % of total labor force. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS — Unemployment Rate. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.